Della’s Handmade Spring — Under the warm garden cart, Della rubbed her plain rim with one soft paw. Read the full story →
Under the warm garden cart, Della rubbed her plain rim with one soft paw. She wanted a flower crown made by her own hands, so she hopped past seed packets and snippy scissors toward the petal bowl. Snip, pat, press—the paper smelled like glue and sunshine.
A tiny clay snail waited beside the bowl with one cracked petal on his shell. “May I have that shiny dot?” he whispered. Della gave him the dot from her side, and he showed her how to curl each petal around a pencil. Back under the cart, her crown sat crooked and lovely. Can you find the missing dot that helped Della make her own spring?